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We study the evolution of circumbinary disks surrounding classical T Tau stars. High resolution numerical simulations are employed to model a system consisting of a central eccentric binary star within an accretion disk. The disk is assumed…

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Wide, highly eccentric ($e>0.9$) compact binaries can naturally arise as progenitors of gravitational wave (GW) mergers. These systems are expected to have a significant population in the mHz band (e.g., $\sim 3-45$ detectable stellar-mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Zeyuan Xuan , Smadar Naoz , Alvin K. Y. Li , Bence Kocsis , Erik Petigura , Alan M. Knee , Jess McIver , Kyle Kremer , Will M. Farr

We investigate the secular evolution of the orbital semi-major axis and eccentricity due to mass transfer in eccentric binaries, allowing for both mass and angular momentum loss from the system. Adopting a delta function mass transfer rate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 J. F. Sepinsky , B. Willems , V. Kalogera , F. A. Rasio

Context: A substantial fraction of protoplanetary disks forms around stellar binaries. The binary system generates a time-dependent non-axisymmetric gravitational potential, inducing strong tidal forces on the circumbinary disk. This leads…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 R. Avramenko , S. Wolf , T. F. Illenseer

The most general bound binary black hole (BBH) system has an eccentric orbit and precessing spins. The detection of such a system with significant eccentricity close to the merger would be a clear signature of dynamical formation. In order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-12 Khun Sang Phukon , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Amitesh Singh , Anuradha Gupta

Hydrodynamical interaction in circumbinary discs (CBDs) plays a crucial role in various astrophysical systems, ranging from young stellar binaries to supermassive black hole binaries in galactic centers. Most previous simulations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-20 Hai-Yang Wang , Xue-Ning Bai , Dong Lai , Douglas N. C. Lin

This paper reviews the rich corpus of observational evidence for tidal effects in short-period binaries. We review the evidence for ellipsoidal variability and for the observational manifestation of apsidal motion in eclipsing binaries.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tsevi Mazeh

We analyse the evolution of a mildly inclined circumbinary disc that orbits an eccentric orbit binary by means of smoother particle hydrodynamic (SPH) simulations and linear theory. We show that the alignment process of an initially…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Jeremy L. Smallwood , Stephen H. Lubow , Alessia Franchini , Rebecca G. Martin

We present general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of equal-mass spinning black hole binary mergers embedded in a magnetized gas cloud. We focus on the effect of the spin orientation relative to the orbital angular momentum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-05 Federico Cattorini , Sofia Maggioni , Bruno Giacomazzo , Francesco Haardt , Monica Colpi , Stefano Covino

We investigate the evolution of low mass (Md /Mb = 0.005) misaligned gaseous discs around eccentric supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries. These are expected to form from randomly oriented accretion events onto a SMBH binary formed in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Hossam Aly , Walter Dehnen , Chris Nixon , Andrew King

In this work, we use general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulations to explore the effect of spin orientation on the dynamics of gas in the vicinity of merging black holes. We present a suite of eight simulations of unequal-mass,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-13 Federico Cattorini , Bruno Giacomazzo , Monica Colpi , Francesco Haardt

Binary black hole systems (BBHs) have become a vivid reality in astrophysics as stellar-mass black hole mergers are now detected through their related gravitational wave emission during the merger stage. If many studies were recently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-28 Fabien Casse , Peggy Varniere , Léna Arthur , Fabrice Dodu

We investigate the orbital eccentricity evolution of supermassive black hole binaries within galactic environments. We analyze the dynamics in triaxial merger remnants and subsequent interactions with geometrically thick nuclear discs. We…

We present three-dimensional Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations investigating the dependence of the accretion rate on the disc thickness around an equal-mass, circular black hole binary system. We find that for thick/hot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Enrico Ragusa , Giuseppe Lodato , Daniel J. Price

Binary stars that are on close orbits around massive black holes (MBH) such as Sgr A* in the center of the Milky Way are liable to undergo tidal disruption and eject a hypervelocity star. We study the interaction between such a MBH and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Harriet Brown , Shiho Kobayashi , Elena M. Rossi , Re'em Sari

Merging binary black holes embedded in gaseous environments, such as supermassive black hole binaries following gas-rich galaxy mergers, are promising sources of multi-messenger transients in the upcoming age of space-based gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-30 Yoonsoo Kim , Elias R. Most , Hai-Yang Wang

We explore the evolution of the eccentricity of an accretion disc perturbed by an embedded planet whose mass is sufficient to open a large gap in the disc. Various methods for representing the orbit-averaged motion of an eccentric disc are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Jean Teyssandier , Gordon I. Ogilvie

We study spectral and time variability of accreting massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) at milli-pc separations surrounded by a geometrically thin circumbinary disc. We present the first computed spectral energy distribution (SED) and light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-20 Fabiola Cocchiararo , Alessia Franchini , Alessandro Lupi , Alberto Sesana

We present numerical simulations of circumbinary accretion onto eccentric and circular binaries using the moving-mesh code AREPO. This is the first set of simulations to tackle the problem of binary accretion using a finite-volume scheme on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Diego J. Muñoz , Dong Lai

A new computational scheme is developed to study gas accretion from a circumbinary disk. The scheme decomposes the gas velocity into two components one of which denotes the Keplerian rotation and the other of which does the deviation from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Tomoyuki Hanawa , Yasuhiro Ochi , Koichi Ando